Prescriptive Nonfiction News Today

The Writers Digest team has witnessed many writing mistakes over the years, so we started this series to help identify them for other writers (along with correction strategies). This weeks writing mistake is undermining your expertise in self-help writing.

Finding Your Writing Nonfiction Niche and Understanding Why This is So Important Why specialize? Its a question many nonfiction authors face. Author Rick Lauber explains how focusing in on one subject can help your writing create a bigger impact—and even widen your audience. Author: Apr 29, 2021 When nervously venturing into the world of freelance writing many years ago, I began by accepting any story assignment … I was pleased to write, see my name in print, and collect tear sheets of m...

Bonnie Marcus: On Being Vulnerable in Nonfiction Award-winning entrepreneur and executive coach Bonnie Marcus shares what it was like to write her prescriptive nonfiction book Not Done Yet. Author: Bonnie Marcus, M.Ed., is an award-winning entrepreneur, Forbes contributing writer, and executive coach, who assists professional women to successfully navigate the workplace and position and promote themselves to advance their careers. With 20+ years of sales and management experience, her extensiv...

6 Tools for Writing Nonfiction That Breathes Nonfiction author Liz Heinecke gives her top 6 tips for crafting a nonfiction book that will really capture your subject. Author: Feb 27, 2021 Although I love good narrative nonfiction, if given the choice, I generally reach for the novel on my nightstand. From the moment I decided to write a book about the intersecting lives of Marie Curie and Loie Fuller, my head was filled with visions of Loie swirling on a stage and Marie waltzing through a radiu...